14 - The Art of Ramon Spectroscopy

Using Raman spectroscopy, Lapricia Organdy is working on a puzzle presented to her by the New Herefordshire Gallery of Beaux Arts. As Chief Consultant Metallurgist she has been asked to see if it is possible to detect copper resinate pigment in a painting of Tintern Abbey attributed to the sixteenth century artist Uriah Claxendell. (Although as yet no-one has made the link, the artist is indeed an ancestor of Malvolio). Little could be further from the mind of the aforesaid descendant, who is currently organising the celebratory opening exhibition of the new Gwair branch of Yifitsinprint Books early next week. He is planning an exhibition of ‘Writers in their Landscape’.